Collaborate Disseminate
Currently there is this design of two apps that work together:
Proof app: On customers phone, takes in a textcode and creates a QR code
Scanner app: On hosts phone, Scans the QR code and displays some information like birthday, initial an… Continue reading Can we prevent users from generating a QR code with edited information
Although facial ID verification tech may seem pretty impressive, it can be thwarted. An experimental new system is claimed to be more foolproof, by requiring users to make specific facial movements.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, LifestyleTags… Continue reading More secure two-factor ID system requires users to make faces
Recently I’ve had two nonprofit organizations ask me to email them a photo of my driver’s license. No money is changing hands, and both of these are legitimate and well-known nonprofits.
Organization A wanted me to sign a document with a n… Continue reading Nonprofit organizations asking me to email them a photo of my driver’s license
I am looking to build an app for a messaging platform that acts as a form of data loss prevention (DLP). Now, DLP covering huge aspects, I want to exclude things like network or endpoint related areas but strictly focus on analyzing messag… Continue reading Open source Data loss protection tools for data identification
Behavioral biometrics bring a better user experience to authentication COVID-19 may very well redefine our work, our homes, our very lives for the foreseeable future. As we near the end of 2020, 75% of employees now work from home (WFH), compared to j… Continue reading Behavioral Biometrics: People-Friendly Zero Trust
Company A pays company B for enterprise software. Company A hosts it internally. An employee from company B needs access to servers at company A in order to manage said software
Company A is requesting very personal information of the empl… Continue reading Risks of Providing a Passport Number [closed]
It sometimes seems that as soon as another form of biometric ID authentication is developed, someone devises a way of fooling it. According to its creators, however, a new 3D finger vein-scanning system cannot be duped.Continue ReadingCategory: Science… Continue reading 3D finger-vein ID tech claimed to be virtually foolproof
It’s important to track the whereabouts of endangered black rhinoceroses, but doing so in the wilds of Namibia can be quite challenging – particularly if you don’t want to physically tag them. That’s where a new footprint identification system is desig… Continue reading FIT tech tracks rhinos via footprint photos
Interesting paper: "Replication: Why We Still Can’t Browse in Peace: On the Uniqueness and Reidentifiability of Web Browsing Histories": We examine the threat to individuals’ privacy based on the feasibility of reidentifying users through distinctive profiles of their browsing history visible to websites and third parties. This work replicates and extends the 2012 paper Why Johnny Can’t Browse in Peace:… Continue reading Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories
Sound waves through the body are unique enough to be a biometric: "Modeling allowed us to infer what structures or material features of the human body actually differentiated people," explains Joo Yong Sim, one of the ETRI researchers who condu… Continue reading Yet Another Biometric: Bioacoustic Signatures